Journal Issue
Ada Davies’s 3-poem run, from Inwardness to No Return, gives this issue its clearest formal center. Most of the 14 poems are compact, but their free-verse lines vary the pace through clipped statements, longer syntactic runs, and small sequences that let one voice change pressure across several pages. What stands out is those changes of scale, as a single image is often answered by a more extended poem on the next leaf. The closing Editorial shifts the number from practice to criticism, making its stylistic choices explicit without flattening the contrasts among the poems.
Contributors
- Winifred M. Johnson
- Hanson Kellogg
- M. A. Mays
- Arthur Simms
- Ada Davies
- David Borden
- Waltrina Furlong
- Laurel Trivelpiece
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Full contents
- Divorce in This Year — Winifred M. Johnson [Poem, p. 43]
- Ascension — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 44]
- A Mansion on the County Line — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 45]
- Night Sea — M. A. Mays [Poem, p. 46]
- Beginning and End — Arthur Simms [Poem, p. 47]
- Inwardness — Ada Davies [Poem, p. 48]
- How on the Rocks — Ada Davies [Poem, p. 49]
- No Return — Ada Davies [Poem, p. 50]
- Point of Leaping — David Borden [Poem, p. 51]
- Fact of Sight — Waltrina Furlong [Poem, p. 52]
- Winter — Arthur Simms [Poem, p. 53]
- Milkweed Hours — Laurel Trivelpiece [Poem, p. 54]
- Age of Neon — Rachel Harris Campbell [Poem, p. 55]
- Ringdove — Rachel Harris Campbell [Poem, p. 56]
- Editorial [Essay, p. 57]
- Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 58]
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Copyright 1952
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*Variegation*, vol. VII, no. 27, Summer 1952. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.